Emergency Medicine Doctors in Brookfield, CT Accepting Medicare

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Dr. Benjamin Chan, M.D. Emergency Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 31 Old Route 7, Brookfield, CT 06804 Phone: 203-885-0808    Fax: 203-885-0813

Matthew David Amara, D.O. Emergency Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 31 Old Route 7, Brookfield, CT 06804 Phone: 203-740-4455    Fax: 203-740-4477

Michael J Alper, MD Emergency Medicine Medicare: Medicare Enrolled Practice Location: 31 Old Route 7, Brookfield, CT 06804 Phone: 203-885-0808    Fax: 203-885-0813

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Today's OpEds: Varying points on the nation's doctor shortage, benefits of negative studies, and what about universal health care?

In the long list of problems affecting the American health care system, the shortage of general practitioners and overabundance of specialists is usually ranked near the top. There is truth to this: only 32 percent of physicians practice primary care medicine. As a result, patients have to wait longer to see their doctors and are more likely to be seen by nurse practitioners and physician assistants instead. However, pediatrics has the opposite problem: a growing shortage of pediatric subspecialists (Dennis Rosen, 7/22).

Abiraterone improves outcomes for prostate cancer prior to chemo

Treatment with abiraterone acetate, an androgen biosynthesis inhibitor, may benefit patients with progressive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have not yet undergone chemotherapy, report researchers.

Sleep quality could be indicator for later Alzheimer's disease finds study

A new study from the researchers at the University of California, Berkeley has shown that progressively declining quality of sleep among those in their 50s and 60s could be indicative of protein tangles within their brains that could lead to later development of Alzheimer's disease.

MSF, DNDi analysis shows increased investment in NTDs but low number of new therapy approvals

"Over the past decade, neglected diseases have attracted increased attention and larger investments in research," but "a new analysis by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) finds that the rate of approvals for new compounds over the past decade is roughly the same as it was during the previous two-and-a-half decades, when the diseases received little attention," Nature Medicine reports.

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